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Remember Michael Jordan's iconic Slam Dunk? Here's the working behind the trick. During the Slam Dunk, players who float mid-air owe a lot to physics and illusion! While jumping, they briefly overcome the force of gravity by accelerating themselves in the opposite direction, in turn decreasing their vertical speed. Now, to dunk, the ball needs to travel through the loop. Newton's third law tells us the force applied to push the ball down is balanced by the force of the ball on the hands. And fin